Soldier River at Pisgah06608500
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.8 mi away/1,037 ft/274 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Magnolia until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Magnolia is 44° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Magnolia, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.10 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Magnolia, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Magnolia, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Soldier River at Pisgah06608500
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.8 mi away/1,037 ft/274 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/10.3 mi away/1,014 ft/297 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station WX4TAZWX4TAZ
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.8 mi away/1,219 ft/92 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
HarlanHNR
At an airfield/28.8 mi away/1,194 ft/117 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mondamin 3.9 EIA-HR-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/1,091 ft/220 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LoganLOGI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.2 mi away/1,142 ft/169 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 28.8 mi from Magnolia, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,900 ft; the ceiling is 3,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,900 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Harlan, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Logan (LOGI4), 5.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.